INTRODUCTION In today’s economically turbulent times, every company is trying to be better than its rivals. Every other firm is trying to gain a strategic position in the marketplace which would give them a sustainable competitive advantage, nevertheless temporary competitive advantage over its rivals. With immense competition between the firms who are trying to outperform one another, managers are always under a scanner as it is they who have to come up with a strategic or innovative thinking which will allow the firm to be ahead of competitors in the marketplace. The entrepreneurial perception of strategy makers has a direct influence on corporate entrepreneurial (CE) strategy, which is the strategy that supports new business development and renewal (Startegypaper8). The writers concluded in the paper by saying that since perceptions of managers have a direct influence on the type of strategy, i.e. explorative or exploitative they take, managers are biased towards following one of the paths more often than another in situations or environments that seems familiar, munificent, controllable, uncertain, turbulent or complex to the managers. The traditional ways of enhancing business decisions for marketing, advertising, launching new ventures or products are long gone which included important decisions being taken by top-level managers based on their intuition and instincts. Present times need a drift from those traditional wsays and this is where Business Analytics comes
Slowly he became market leader for that product. Entrepreneurship has been defined by several researchers as the progression of making a product or service valuable by gathering a distinctive set of resources and opportunities. This procedure comprises the set of accomplishments to recognise opportunities, business classification, evaluation and obtaining the essential resources, management and getting positive results. Furthermore, entrepreneurship has been seen as an organizational coordination that underlines the three extents: innovation, taking calculated risks and proactive orientation. There are many indications to provision the idea that the businesses which were engaged in entrepreneurial practices have been most effective and successful (Hills, Hultman & Miles, 2008).
Intuition and analysis are two cognitive styles used by entrepreneurs in new venture formation. Researches Kickul, Gundry, Barbosa, and Whitcanack (2009) studied the effects of intuition versus analysis on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and found that “individuals with the intuitive cognitive style were more confident in their ability to identify and recognize opportunities,” but “individuals with the analytic cognitive style were more confident in their abilities to assess, evaluate, plan, and marshal resources” (p. 439). They also found that “intuitive individuals’ intentions toward entrepreneurship are better explained by their self-efficacy beliefs regarding . . . the
Background The Entrepreneurial Approach - Entrepreneurship is from a French word meaning "a person who undertakes innovations and risks in business in an effort to transform ideas into economic goods." In modern business jargon, it has become more of a description of a mind-set, one who will take risks in order to result in gain; one who will use the spirit of innovation and throw off the shackles of "rules" to success in whatever organization that may be (Searching for the Invisible Man, 2006)
In order for a business or corporation to grow and expand at a calculated pace, they must be able to strategize the proper business plan to get there. A strategy is a set of analytic techniques for understanding and influencing the firm 's position in the marketplace (Raimundo, 2001). Having a business
The Case Study concerning MacFarlane solutions is an interesting one to note down regarding strategic planning in an organization. From the information given, it appears that the small business expanded merely due to the insight of Bill MacFarlane and the planning that he gave forward. (McDonald 2011 pg. 736) Bill started off after working in a firm and having an experience of more than forty years. He specialized in what he knew and then gave forward what he was good out. There was risk in his ventures as the expert started out, however he trusted his instincts and went out with the planning.
Strategy is derived from the vision and mission of an organisation. Having a strategy allows the organisation to gain competitive advantage against its competitor and assist them to adapt themselves in the changing market. Therefore, the determinants of strategy are an important aspect to consider as they influence the type of strategy a firm adopts in different levels; corporate, business and functional of the organisation. There are many determinants that can affect the type of strategy an organisation adopts, but there are three important ones which firms emphasize heavily on in the strategic management process. The three determinants are the competition they face in the micro environment, the resource of an organisation as well as the
Entrepreneurship is difficult to define throughout its history research. Even nowadays, this concept is still a debatable point (Rajendra, et al., 2017). Based on four decades of research, Gartner (1988) concludes that entrepreneurs are founders of new firms. Shane and Venkataraman (2000) consider entrepreneurship as “a new venture’s risk-taking endeavor seeking an opportunity” and Fortunato (2014) adds innovative value into the concept of entrepreneurship. Thus, research on the definition of entrepreneurship continue. According to those diverse views, I will interpret six unique entrepreneurial characteristics and theoretically analyze each one. Risk taker, need for achievement and proactivity as my strengthens will be illustrated with my experience. Innovativeness, internal locus of control and tolerance for ambiguity are my weaknesses, thus I will describe relevant successful Entrepreneurs’ experiences.
In order for a new venture to be successful, the management plays a vital role. When a business grows, it can never be a one-man show, but it needs the management as a whole to take responsibility. An entrepreneur can have a business model that has the
Entrepreneurial Orientation was introduced in the discourse of entrepreneurship when Miller had developed the concept of entrepreneurial orientation in 1983; his conception of the entrepreneurial orientation was approved as the first foundational pace of an entrepreneurship development and its upgrading. That moment in time, Miller (1983) had developed the notion emphasizing on innovativeness, risk-taking and pro-activeness and its dimensions through the lens of one-dimensional effect on organization’s performance.
The ‘’Successful Strategic Management Growth-Oriented Timber Haulage Entrepreneurs’’ describes what kind of strategic management develop to achieve growth profitability. Also, this research emphasizes the importance of strategic management. Strategic management involves the implementation of setting objectives, policies and goals. The most important factor to achieve a successful growth and sustainability is taken by the executive manager and owners. Executive managers has the commitment to reach and pursue the firms’ objectives to create profit. Also, the executive manager have the highest level in the company, but also the highest responsibilities of managing the company day-to-day. The owners and executive managers design and develop
This school sees strategy formation as a visionary process and is fell under the descriptive school of strategic management. The chief architect of the strategy is the CEO of a company. This school took formal leadership seriously and CEO is responsible for strategy formulation. It stressed on mental state and processes such as instinctive knowledge, belief, wisdom, experience and insight of a single leader. The leader should be visionary in formulating strategy. The entrepreneurial school promotes strategy as a process which has a clear image and sense of direction which can be termed as a vision. Entrepreneurial strategy often occurs in startup companies and organizations in trouble and needing a
Entrepreneurial orientation is a key concept when organizations are creating strategies to do something new and take advantage of opportunities that other organizations cannot exploit (Ketchen & Short, 2017). It can be defined as an organizational-level strategic management, which includes characteristic such as: autonomy, risk-taking, competitive aggressiveness, innovativeness and pro-activeness. When major brands Apple and Nike implement entrepreneurial orientation successfully, they’re able to achieve high performance and quality products through innovative techniques that allows them to maintain market dominance. We’ll go into further detail discussing how both these companies effectively executed entrepreneurial orientation to achieve such success; starting with some background information.
According to Kourdi (2009) ‘Business strategy is the set of activities where business combines mission, vision and goals of business and goes forward to achieve them’. Every business combines strategic plan and activities to achieve their goals. In other aspect it can be said business strategy is the subject by which an organisation make their roadmap
Entrepreneurial cognition refers to the knowledge structures that people use to make assessments, judgments, or decisions involving opportunity evaluation, venture creation, and growth (Mitchell, Busenitz, Lant, McDaugall, Morse, & Smith, 2002). It is the approach that is characterized by the study of the type of cognitions among others that could help to define the entrepreneur, explain entrepreneurial behaviours in relation to identification of business opportunities and growth, success in business, and distinguish entrepreneurs from other
After examining different theories of organizational strategy we were able to apply each case to our company and work. We also learned that there are two dominant methodologies, categorized as planned/analytical and emergent approaches. These strategies provide much knowledge and advice as to how to improve our organization. However, it is important to remember that these theories are not perfect. They do not encompass every organizational situation and there are a lot of circumstantial assumptions made as well. In the following discussion we will analyze the advantages and disadvantages between these strategic theories. In addition I will reflect on how these approaches may be used in my own real world situation.